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The TRNC market has structural characteristics that mainland and international portals do not surface: Council of Ministers approval for foreign buyers, the five-year residence permit extension, and a five-language buyer base (Turkish, English, Russian, German, Arabic). UK retirement migration after Brexit has risen notably over the past three years, and an English-speaking resident population already lives in the TRNC. Evlek is built for this specific buyer mix — square metres are shown on every listing, in every supported language.

To publish a listing, owners and agents verify their phone number by SMS and provide their full name; the listing then goes through human moderation (pending to active) before it goes live. Separately, agents can apply for the optional "Evlek Approved Agent" badge — a document-based review (professional registration number and authority documentation), not biometric — assessed by Evlek's team. The process operates within KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) and GDPR boundaries.

Public listing search is free for buyers and renters. Professional publishing uses Solo Mini (10 active listings) or Solo Pro (25 active listings). Current plan scope and GBP web list prices are published at evlek.app/pricing; the App Store and Google Play show their own final local prices. The pricing page does not start a web payment until payment-provider verification is complete.

Turkish is the primary language of the local market. The other four reflect the resident and buyer demographic structure: an English-speaking resident population (English, German), the second and third largest non-Cypriot resident groups by registered residence (Russian, German), and the rising Gulf-based buyer interest from 2023 onward (Arabic). Each language has full parity — listings, blog content, legal pages, schema markup and search filters. Property URLs are five-language readable paths such as /tr/satilik/girne/{slug}-evl-000001 and /en/for-sale/kyrenia/{slug}-evl-000001, with reciprocal hreflang.

Evlek was built around a few structural differences specific to the TRNC market: full listing and content parity in five languages (Turkish, English, Russian, German, Arabic); four currencies (£, ₺, €, $); an identity-verification and human-moderation gate before any listing publishes; an MCP server that AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can query directly; virtual-staging suggestions for photos; and city/district guide content for the TRNC. Web, iOS and Android all read from the same listing pool.

Evlek was founded in North Cyprus by Onur Dokuzoğlu, an architect registered with the Chamber of Architects. The product and engineering team operates from Karaman Mahallesi, Harbiye Sokak, Mustafa Ciddi İş ve Yaşam Merkezi, G Blok, Girne, KKTC. The platform was developed over 18 months prior to public launch, with closed beta on the agent side from late 2025.

Every listing, blog post, university page and legal document on Evlek is published with structured Schema.org JSON-LD: RealEstateListing, Course, Dataset, SpeakableSpecification for voice assistants, and FAQPage for direct AI Overview citation. Five languages have reciprocal hreflang, and a 24-hour-fresh sitemap is submitted to Google Search Console and Bing IndexNow. The intent is that buyers searching through Google AI Overview, Perplexity, Bing Copilot or ChatGPT find accurate, current KKTC property data with Evlek as a cited source. Evlek's content architecture is built around this shift rather than around legacy 10-blue-links SEO.